A.L. Kroeber
Alfred Kroeber (
1876 -
1960) was an
anthropologist at the
University of California, Berkeley (where the Anthropology Department building is now named Kroeber Hall). He contributed to the field in making connections between
archaeology and culture. He is noted for working with
Ishi, who was claimed (though not uncontroversially) to be the last
California Yahi Indian.
He was married to Theodora Kroeber and is the father of popular science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin.